New A’s reliever Joakim Soria slowed by minor hip issue

MESA, Ariz. — Joakim Soria, the primary addition to Oakland’s bullpen this offseason, will take a break from throwing off the mound because of right hip tendinitis, manager Bob Melvin said Tuesday.

“It will probably be a couple day thing,” Melvin said at the team’s minor-league Fitch Park complex. “We’ll see how he feels after he plays catch.”

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Soria signed a two-year, $15 million deal with Oakland this winter and the right-hander is expected to be one of the team’s primary set-up men.

Melvin said that lefty Wei-Chung Wang, who has been slowed by a minor groin injury, was scheduled for a flat-ground session Tuesday, and lefty Tyler Alexander will throw a bullpen session Wednesday, his first since signing with the A’s last week.

Susan Slusser has worked at The San Francisco Chronicle since 1996. She has been a member of the Baseball Writers Association of America since 1993 and in 2012 became the only woman to be elected president in the 111 years of the organization. She has written about many other sports for the paper, particularly hockey and, more recently, e-sports.

Susan previously covered the Texas Rangers for the Dallas Morning News, the Orlando Magic for the Orlando Sentinel, and the NBA and other sports for the Sacramento Bee.

Susan is an on-air correspondent for the MLB Network and makes regular appearances on 95.7 FM The Game. Her book about the A’s, 100 Things A's Fans Need to Know and Do Before They Die, came out in 2014 and she and A’s radio announcer Ken Korach are working on a book that will come out in 2019.